Hospital Water Hit by Bacteria

By

Pervaiz Shallwani

September 19, 2011

Patients and staff at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center are being told to temporarily stop using tap water for drinking and showers after small traces of a water-transferred bacteria were found in the water supply, hospital officials said Sunday.

The precautionary move was taken Friday after a routine water test came back with trace amounts of Legionella, the bacteria that causes Legionnaires' disease, said Kent Sepkowitz,...